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Operations New Year Review - TopSky and 2020 Statistics

Happy New Year! I hope your festive periods have been relaxing. I'm sure many of you like me, will be looking ahead with more optimism to 2021. The past year has generated some remarkable statistics which show the vast contributions made to the division. The Operations Department has also been working hard on a number of topics recently and there are a few exciting projects in the works as we begin 2021. Top-Sky There has been a growing chorus of voices requesting an official VATS
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Staff Changes

Operations Department

Good evening, The application process for vacancies in the Operations Department has concluded and I am delighted to announce that the following members have been appointed: Aerodrome Operations Coordinator: @Chad Byworth Sector File Coordinators: @Thomas Mills and @Luke Brown Thank you to all those who took the time to apply for these roles and volunteer their time to the division.
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Staff Changes

Enroute Operations Coordinator

Hi all, As promised, the Operations Team is expanding to include more personnel. It gives me great pleasure to welcome Harry S (1237658) to the team in the role of Enroute Operations Coordinator. Harry will be responsible for enroute procedures and documentation and will lead our group of contributors in this area. He will also work with the training department to to develop and ratify enroute ATC procedures and documentation as required. Harry is an experienced controller an
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Operations Director - Opening Statement

Firstly, thank you to everyone for the warm welcome, I know recuitment for this role has been eagerly anticipated and I hope I can do justice to it. At the present moment, Chris remains responsible for the majority of the department's output. This will gradually shift as we get the opportunity to hand over the various compenents. Getting to grips with the current state of affairs will take some time and I anticipate that during this period, I won't be able to respond to queries as promptly
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Open Source Update - UK Sector File

I am pleased to announce that the migration of the UK Sector File Repository from GitLab to GitHub has now been completed - thanks @Neil Farrington! The new repository can be found here: https://github.com/VATSIM-UK/UK-Sector-File The first and most important thing is that you read (and understand) the Contributing guide which is attached to the project. As we go on it is the intention to develop the Wiki with details of how the sector file is generated from the repository, and a step-
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Reducing Redundancy in Mentoring Reports

ATC MENTORS Following a discussion with @Samuel James, I realised we are both of the opinion that the prevalence of massive chunks of textual procedures in mentoring reports has become excessive. Forgetting the fact that we may of course be seeing changes through the introduction of Central Training for now (see page 7 of the November 2016 DSG meeting minutes regarding 'intense mentoring reports'), the fact that I see so many procedures in reports makes me, as the Operations Manager, worrie
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Harry Sugden in Operations

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"She generally gave herself good advice, (though she very seldom followed it)"

Feedback is invaluable for all of our professional development as controllers, pilots, staff, mentors etc. It's also an important part of the development of our services for members. And with that, we are looking to gather your opinions surrounding a pilot and controller feedback system using a short survey... CLICK TO ACCESS THE SURVEY  The survey will only take a couple of minutes to complete and will enable myself and the Web Team to gather enough initial information to draft requir
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Harry Sugden in Operations

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Operations

New Forums

You may have noticed a few changes to the forum to help facilitate achieving the goals set out in my earlier roadmap post. So, what are the new places for? ATC Procedure Changes This forum used to sit under ‘ATC Training’ but has been moved to ‘Operations’. It will work in the same way as it has done, with procedures that have been fully incorporated into published documentation moved into the Archive. ATC Rostering & Requests This forum centralises requests by RTSMs for
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